Thunar - bug or feature?

NFS mount. I own the file and have write permission on it. I can use cp command to overwrite it with new version for instance. But Thunar refuses to access it for writing. Probably because the parent directory is not owned by my user and user has no rights to create new files. Shall I file a bug?

Re: Thunar - bug or feature?

Lets forget NFS, in my example I created a directory in my home and Thunar refuses to overwrite a file owned by me - obviously because of permissions of parent directory. Sorry for involving NFS (but that's where it bites me). Thunar version 1.8.1.

Re: Thunar - bug or feature?

Yeah, looks like I was too focused on the NFS thing. My apologies.

I can see what you are seeing now. Based on the fact that as regular user you don't have access to that directory, you shouldn't be able to see what is in the directory. In other words, I'm surprised that "cp" lets you do that. So I did some research and found this post (and a follow-on article). Note Baldrick's "Interesting case 2" response and the article's 4th example. Interesting.

Re: Thunar - bug or feature?

I don't think "have no access" is correct wording. User can cd into this directory and read its contents. This is access, although limited. Other shells do not have this bug, for instance Midnight Commander and XFE file manager allow me overwrite or delete files owned by me.